'If we are gullible, we don't recognise hallucinations or lucid dreaming for what it is and we claim to have seen or heard a ghost; or an angel; or God...'
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Richard Dawkins (2)
'If you've had such an experience, you may find yourself firmly believing that it was real. But don't expect the rest of us to take your word for it.'
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Michael Persinger
Constructed an electronic helmet which induced 'religious experiences' by putting small electric signals and magnetic vibrations into the temporal lobes of the user.
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John Hick
'Any special event of experience which can be constituted as manifesting the divine can also be constituted in other ways.'
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Anthony Flew (1)
'The testimony of religious believer is biased, irrational and questionable, it could not be regarded as meaningful because nothing could count against it.'
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Anthony Flew (2)
'Believers are often so convinced by the truth of their statements that they refuse to accept evidence to the contrary.'
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A.J. Ayer
'That people have religious experiences interesting from the psychological point of view, it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge.'
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Sam Harris
'When their beliefs are extremely common we call them religious, otherwise they are likely to be called mad, psychotic or delusional.'
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Card 2
Front
'If you've had such an experience, you may find yourself firmly believing that it was real. But don't expect the rest of us to take your word for it.'
Back
Richard Dawkins (2)
Card 3
Front
Constructed an electronic helmet which induced 'religious experiences' by putting small electric signals and magnetic vibrations into the temporal lobes of the user.
Back
Card 4
Front
'Any special event of experience which can be constituted as manifesting the divine can also be constituted in other ways.'
Back
Card 5
Front
'The testimony of religious believer is biased, irrational and questionable, it could not be regarded as meaningful because nothing could count against it.'
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